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Vehicle
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- This article is about the means of transport. For other uses see Vehicle (disambiguation).
Vehicles are non-living means of transport. They are most often man-made (e.g. bicycles, cars, motorcycles, trains, ships, and aircraft), although some other means of transport which are not made by man can also be called vehicles; examples include icebergs and floating tree trunks.
Vehicles may be propelled by animals, for instance, a chariot or an ox-cart. However, animals on their own, though used as a means of transport, are not called vehicles. This includes humans carrying another human, for example a child or a disabled person.
Vehicles that do not travel on land are often called crafts, such as watercraft, sailcraft, aircraft, hovercraft and spacecraft
Most land vehicles have wheels.
The word vehicle itself comes from the Latin vehiculum.
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- see Bicycles (see also Vehicular Cycling)
- see main article History of the bicycle
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- see Tricycle
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- see Quadricycle
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- see steam car
- See steam tricycle
At the other end of the scale much lighter steam vehicles have been constructed such as the steam tricycle from the Comte de Dion in 1887.
- See motor-carriage
- See Ford's model T
- See Automobile
A road train consists of a conventional heavy truck pulling three trailers or more, used in rural areas of Australia to move bulky loads such as livestock efficiently.
- See Motorcycle
- See Gottlieb Daimler
- see submarines
- see submersibles
- see diving bells
- see diving chambers
- see Amphibious vehicle
- see Amphibious ATV
- see Hovercraft
- see snowmobile
